Most shoe companies going Light Weight these days, going back to the thinking that if a area is weak, don’t support it, make it stronger. Lighter less supportive shoes develop your weak area more. And of course you need to take baby steps in doing so.
100g seems to be the magical number that shoe companies try and get to when they say light weight, but most end up around 150g odd. Here is a sneak pic of the new Zoot Ultra Speeds, got it from Marc Price at Troisport who apart of the agency for ZOOT in SA, we have seen a few athletes testing them out in the last few races in Europe and should see them soon in SA. So watch this space and don’t be scared to get lighter shoes to train in and definitely race in
Never Stop Tweaking
Yesterday we raced the first Energade Sprint Triathlon of the year at Midmar Dam and on the start line i could see in everybody’s eyes that they had the look of ” This is going to Hurt so bad ” in their eyes.
Although the numbers weren’t huge there was a lot of quality in both the men’s and women’s Field.
In the Women’s Race Tanielle Mandy had a excellent swim coming out the water 7th overall, followed by Samantha Ferreira in 10th place, both girls been working hard on their swims. Onto the bike and things really got broken up and a lot of solo biking was done, Samantha was making her way the field when 3km from end of the bike leg she got a puncture and wouldn’t beable to finish the race. Tanielle managed to get a 9th place in Open Women with Riana de Lange now a Whasp Athlete picking up 3rd on the day.
In the Men’s race Jeff Norton cruised out the water first followed closely by a small pack of athletes contain Wikus Weber too, so we had 2 Whasp Athletes in front pack of 6.
David Hadenham, Marc Price found themselves in the 2nd chasing pack and the game was on, PMB showing us that summer has arrived with winds and very Hot temperatures on the day.
Collin Allin, Robin Frankland having good swims making up the 3rd chase pack with Terrance Louw and Tiaan Rossouw chasing hard from behinde.
Tiaan had a super bike and rode his way up to near the front , finishing off the day in 8th place just ahead of Marc Price, also Whasp athlete.
Robin got 14th, Jeff 15th, David 17th , Collin 18th and Terrance 19th.
Wikus Weber finished 5th overall and was 1st Junior on the day too as he tries to win the Junior series for the 3rd time in a row.
The men’s winner was Claude Eksteen Followed by Erhard Wolfhaardt and Women’s was Andrea Steyn followed by Vicky van Der Merwe.
This weekend we go to the vaal to do battle again.
Tags: Collin Allin, David Hadenham, Energade Triathlon Series, Jeff Norton, Marc Price, Riana de Lange, Robin Frankland, Samantha Ferreira, Specialized, Tanielle Mandy, Team Whasp, Terrance Louw, Tiaan Rossouw, Wikus Weber
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